I just bought Bombaman. Nice game, great music, but the CD that was given with it looks like it hasn't been tested. All filenames are upper cased 8.3, with '~1' at the end of them, and the cd contains a virus; many strange named executables on the website folder contain the W32.Netsky.P virus:

Directory of D:\BOMBAM~1\BOMBAMAN\WEBSITE\WWWB.NET\DOWNLOAD

02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 1001SE~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 3DSTUD~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ACDSEE~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ADOBEP~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ADOBEP~2.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ADOBEP~3.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 AHEADN~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ALTKIN~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 AMERIC~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 ARNOLD~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BR3060~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BR44F8~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BR5D6C~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BR6712~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BR73F6~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRB645~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRD650~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~2.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~3.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~4.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 CLONED~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 CLONIN~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 CRACKS~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 DICTIO~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 DIVX80~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 DOOM3R~1.EXE

etc.

Plus, the level editor crashes here, but this might be due to the 8.3 name RESOURC~1.INI of which i don't know the original name of.

Yeah, I have the same problem.

Very strange .... I've received by the post the CD sent by Sunrise ... and I don't have any of this suspicious EXE files on my Bombaman CD .... only zip, mp3, jpg and psf files in the concerned subdirectory ...

The level editor crashes here as well I'm using win98se .. you too? (it's said that w98 is the problem here)

winxp pro here

yes right i just bought it today also, and you are right!
I have those files also.
And my Norton antivirus says that it contains virus!!!!!
Virus name: W32.netsky.P@mm.

And i also can not open the editor :S

hmm that's really bad The original files for the CD were completely tested & 100% virus-free. The first series of CD's are correct too, assuming by the date/time of those files you probably have a 2nd series. Complaints should go to Sunrise and you should demand a new CD.

There are problems with the editor on win98se (but I used it a lot on normal win98). The RESOURC~1.INI file that jooneman was talking about should really be called resources.ini, but on win2k the editor doesn't crash on it...

That's pretty bad allright! I've already mailed Sunrise about it to warn them about this. The first series of the CD were correct, no problems there, so I guess something went wrong with the second batch
Anyways, everybody with a corrupted CD should go to Sunrise and receive a new CD. You can contact Sunrise through email (rhiep@msx.ch).

Sorry guys, but this is most unfortunate , i say everyone returns the cd.
I replace them naturally for free. But I am certainly not happy since I have a virus-protector for this virus and my provider claims that they have intercept possible infection.
Meaning this works not properly afaik

Maybe this ought to be posted on the frontpage news, to ensure everyone who bought it is notified of this. It's not good for the Sunrise image, I guess, but things like this can happen, I guess (again), and... Well, this can't go unnoticed. It's too dangerous (though I don't know exactly how harmful netsky is...).

~Grauw

It is even worse for the Sunrise image if people get infected because they WEREN'T notified...so I would say... post it

HAHAHAHAHA :-)

02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~1.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~2.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~3.EXE
02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~4.EXE

It is really fun to see the perverts chasing Britney Spears and getting a F*C*ING virus instead

Quote:

HAHAHAHAHA :-) 02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~1.EXE 02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~2.EXE 02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~3.EXE 02-04-2004 00:50 29.568 BRITNE~4.EXE It is really fun to see the perverts chasing Britney Spears and getting a F*C*ING virus instead

LOL

allright, its quite a bad thing. ah well, as long as you can get a new copy for free..

Well, it seems this CD was readable on MSX (with IDE+CDROM), since the filenames were in 8.3 format . Well, only if it has been burnt in ISO9660 format (which I think Sunrise didn't). lol

Another virus on MSX

I'm glad I purchased Bombaman on the first occasion Virus free!

Just out of curiousity of course, but which interesting Britney Spears files are there? Any nudity and stuff?